Young Goodman Brown Question 1

Young Goodman Brown represents humans and human nature. He is tempted to enter the forest, which symbolizes sin. He becomes more and more curious until he finally snaps and ascends further and further into the dark forest. The man who meets Young Goodman Brown in the forest is the devil and his staff a serpent. Goodman Brown becomes more and more curious about what is happening around the forest and decides to fall into the devils temptation. He has lost touch with his Faith and faith. But the devil draws nearer and nearer to Goodman Brown, now teasing his vision. Young Goodman Brown snaps out of it and begins to pray to the heavens when all of a sudden fire has broken out on the trees and a huge black cloud blocks the night sky. Goodman Brown has allowed himself to be engulfed by the evil. In the midst of everything he picks out the priest and other townspeople that he has met at the communion table rioting at the tavern.  Amongst all of the chaos Goodman Brown is drawn out of the hectic-ness and hears his dear Faith and her pink ribbon, but it is far too late to turn back to her. He has seen too much and done far enough. “Faith! Faith!” he yells, but it is too late to save himself.  Then Young Goodman Brown awakes from his terrible dream and is not so much a “Good-Man” anymore. He has been consumed by what he witnessed from his dream. He has realized that people are all tempted and that in someway or another each and every person falls into temptation in one way or another. The theme of the story is to hold on to your Faith and to not fall into the temptations the devil throws your way because there will definitely be bumps and troubles in your way through life.